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Random Walk

Rocking the Vote
by Elisabeth Nadin
New voting technologies are not subject to rigorous scientific testing. Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project scientists hope to change that.

Knowing What You Like
by Marcus Woo
A Caltech neurobiology lab is studying "preference decisions" —the red necktie or the blue one? Coke or Pepsi?— and it turns out that the body may be as influential as the brain.

A History of OVRO: Part II
by Marshall H. Cohen
Before the advent of big, national radio-telescope arrays, Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory was a worldwide mecca for interferometry.

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Obituaries: John Todd